Home Designer Roof Pitch

To create a gull wing roof 1.

Home designer roof pitch.

The basic explanation is that most roofs have a slope and the degree of steepness associated with the slope is called pitch. On the roofpanel set the overall pitchfor your plan that most of your roof planes need to be. But the first pitch of a gull wing is shallower than the second. We ll now enlighten you on a roof s pitch the 4 very basic shapes and some of the many details that go into roof design.

Only home designer pro and chief architect versions of the software will allow you to select a roof plane and manually edit its pitch to be 0 if you do not want the roof hanging over the edges of the structure change the roof overhang for eave and gable to be 1. For the purposes of our example we will set this pitch to 12 for an imperial plan or 45 in a metric plan. Understanding roof pitch is both fairly basic and a little complex. Measuring a roof pitch ideally you will have safe access to your roof from inside the building.

Now that you have both of the opposing walls on your first and second floors set to full gable so that they will not generate the automatic hip roof that home designer would create by default you have your roof pitch set and the second floor will be ignored for automatic roof generation you need to adjust the height of the first floor so that the roof planes will extend all the way to the. Or a family room over garage can be done within all home designer products. Creating a bonus room above a garage. The options available in the build roof dialog may vary from the image above depending on your version of the software.

The tools required will be a contractor s level at least 24 inches long and a tape measure. Next select build roof build roof. An a frame roof house is built by changing the pitch or rise over run and using full gable walls. Click okto apply this change.

Creating a barrel roof. Home designer pro 2014 user s guide gull wing roofs a gull wing roof has two pitches on either side of the ridge as a gambrel does. The roof that results will have the default pitch over all non gable walls except those for which you specified a different pitch. Select build roof delete roof planes.

Select build roof build rooffrom the menu and in the build roofdialog specify the desired default pitch for your roof check either build roof planesor auto rebuild roofs then click ok. Click on the floor plan view window to make it the active view. Launch home designer and open the plan in which you want to adjust your roofs. Enter a value to describe the pitch in a ratio over 12.

Home designer pro can create barrel roofs using cad lines cad tools and manual roof planes.